The Age of Sustainable Development PPT (by Jeff Sachs, in English)

International Growth Centre public lecture The Age of Sustainable Development Professor Jeffrey D Sachs Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on Millennium Development Goals Dr Jonathan Leape Chair, LSE Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSESachs THE AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT  JEFFREY D. SACHS International Growth Centre London School of Economics 4 February 2015 The Anthropocene: It’s All About Scale James Watt’s Engine:  Most Significant Invention of Modern History Gross World Output  Gross World Product per Capita  Human Population in the Holocene SIXTH WAVE SHOULD BE SUSTAINBLE GROWTH BUILT ON DIGITAL REVOLUTION THE INFORMATION AGE (TRANSISTOR COUNT ON INTEL MICROPROCESSORS) XEON PHI 5.0B 5,000,000,000 4,500,000,000 4,000,000,000 3,500,000,000 3,000,000,000 2,500,000,000 2,000,000,000 1,500,000,000 1,000,000,000 500,000,000 INTEL 4004 2.3K 1971 1972 1974 1976 1978 1979 1982 1985 1989 1993 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2008 2010 2011 2012 2015 is the Decisive Year for Setting Sustainable Development Goals Financing for Sustainable Development (Addis  Ababa, July 2015) Sustainable Development Goals (UN HQ, September 2015) Climate Change Agreement at COP21 (Paris, December 2015) SDG PRIORITIES (CONSOLIDATING THE 17 STATED PRIORITIES  OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY) END POVERTY AND HUNGER  HEALTH FOR ALL EDUCATION FOR ALL REDUCE ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES; END GENDER INEQUALITIES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DECENT JOBS SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABLE CITIES STOP HUMAN‐INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE 9.   CONSERVE MARINE AND TERRESTIAL ECOSYSTEMS  10. GOOD GOVERNANCE AND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS Challenges to Meet the Sustainable  Development: Rapid Technological Transformation Equity in Social Service Provision Community Protection of Natural Resources Strengthening of Local Governance Sharing Work, Learning, and Leisure Restraining Arbitrary Corporate Power Responsible investing and Financial Markets Re‐Democratizing Our Democracies Identifying Shared Global Values CRITICAL “SUSTAINBLE SYSTEMS” PRIORITIES: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION (“SMART CITIES”) WILL NEED TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS NEED NEW GLOBAL PUBLIC‐PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS  (PPPs) FOR SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES: LOW‐CARBON ENERGY SYSTEMS RESILIENT AND SUSTAINBLE AGRICULTURE SMART ICT‐ENABLED URBAN SYSTEMS ICT‐ENABLED HEALTH, EDUCATION, GOVERNANCE EXAMPLES OF DIRECTED SCIENCE AND  TECHNOLOGY: VACCINES, MEDICINES, AND DIAGNOSTICS  RADAR CRYPTOGRAPHY NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPUTING SEMICONDUCTORS  SATELLITES AND SPACE SCIENCE INTERNET HUMAN GENOME PROJECT HIGGS BOSON (CERN) BRAIN INITIATIVE HALVING OF COST ROUGHLY EVERY NINE MONTHS BAU:  4‐6 degree C 2‐degree C Main Decarbonization Strategies Decarbonization of  Electricity Key Metric of  Transformation Strategy Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency End Use Fuel Switching  to Electric Sources 2014 2014 2014 2050 2050 2050 0.0 5.0 10.0 Energy Intensity of GDP (GJ/$2005) 200 400 600 Electricity Emissions Intensity (gCO2/kWh) 0% 25% 50% 75% Share of Electricity and Electric Fuels in Total Final Energy (%) THE WORLD WILL NEED TO STRAND OIL, GAS,  AND COAL RESERVES FROM McGLADE AND EKINS, NATURE MAGAZINE, JANUARY 8, 2015 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Solar PV: Annual and Cumulative Production (MW) 140,000 120,000 100,000 80,000 Production 60,000 Cumulative 40,000 20,000 KEY ROLES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DISCIPLINES (1) Understanding Mechanisms: climate, biodiversity, economic  dynamics (2) Monitoring and mapping Earth system states (3) Developing integrated physical‐human systems for the “green  economy”  (4) Assisting directed technological change e.g. “deep  decarbonization,” ICT‐based health and education, sustainable  agriculture, smart cities (5) Leading public and university education, and building a shared  global framework for action  Some Recent Alliances for  Sustainable Development • • • • • Earth League  UN SDSN SDSN.Edu and MDP DDPP PPPs for Low‐Carbon Technology International Growth Centre public lecture The Age of Sustainable Development Professor Jeffrey D Sachs Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on Millennium Development Goals Dr Jonathan Leape Chair, LSE Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #LSESachs ... now negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be adopted in September 2015 2015 is the Decisive Year for Setting Sustainable Development Goals Financing for Sustainable Development (Addis .. .THE AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT JEFFREY D. SACHS International Growth Centre London School of Economics 4 February 2015 The Anthropocene: It’s All About Scale James Watt’s Engine: ... REDUCE ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES; END GENDER INEQUALITIES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DECENT JOBS SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABLE CITIES STOP HUMAN‐INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE 9.   CONSERVE MARINE AND TERRESTIAL ECOSYSTEMS